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Born in Canada to an American mother, Ted Cruz became an instant U.S. citizen. But under Canadian law, he also became a citizen of that country the moment he was born.
Unless the Texas Republican senator formally renounces that citizenship, he will remain a citizen of both countries, legal experts say.
That means he could assert the right to vote in Canada or even run for Parliament. On a lunch break from the U.S. Senate, he could head to the nearby embassy — the one flying a bright red maple leaf flag — pull out his Calgary, Alberta, birth certificate and obtain a passport.
“He’s a Canadian,” said Toronto lawyer Stephen Green, past chairman of the Canadian Bar Association’s Citizenship and Immigration Section.
The circumstances of Cruz’s birth have fueled a simmering debate over his eligibility to run for president. Knowingly or not, dual citizenship is an apparent if inconvenient truth for the tea party firebrand, who shows every sign he’s angling for the White House.
“Senator Cruz became a U.S. citizen at birth, and he never had to go through a naturalization process after birth to become a U.S. citizen,” said spokeswoman Catherine Frazier. “To our knowledge, he never had Canadian citizenship.”
The U.S. Constitution allows only a “natural born” American citizen to serve as president. Most legal scholars who have studied the question agree that includes an American born overseas to an American parent, such as Cruz.
The Constitution says nothing about would-be presidents born with dual citizenship.
I am just sitting here eating my popcorn and waiting to see how the Teabaggers, who LOVE Ted Cruz, are going to handle this. Because watching them trying to rationalize this, after what they did to President Obama, is going to be very entertaining!
I wonder how President Obama is reacting to the news?
Update: Now Cruz has decided that he needs to renounce his Canadian citizenship:
“Now the Dallas Morning News says that I may technically have dual citizenship,” Cruz said in a statement. “Assuming that is true, then sure, I will renounce any Canadian citizenship. Nothing against Canada, but I’m an American by birth and as a U.S. senator; I believe I should be only an American.”
I am really loving this story, for no other reason than to hear birthers backpedaling like crazy in order to rationalize why THIS is different than their Obama birth certificate witch hunt.
Here is my favorite line from this Washington Post article.
“Given the raft of stories today about my birth certificate, it must be a slow news day,” Cruz said.
Seriously? Somewhere you just know there are Right Wingers whose brains are exploding.
You gotta go over to MaddowBlog today to read the comments on their site about this news story. I haven't laughed so hard in quite a while. Did you know Cruz's father was a Cuban who fought with Fidel Castro?
ReplyDeleteBeside, or against?
DeleteThey'll glance over that the way they glance over Todd Palin's 7 year AIP membership.
DeleteTo The Nasty Liberal, Cruz's father was jailed by the Batista, so when he got out, he fought WITH Castro. Later, he claimed that he didn't know that Castro was a communist. But brother Raoul and their BFF, Che Guevera were also part of the revolutionary forces, and they were outspoken communists.
DeleteTo TheNastyLiberal 6:48: Cruz's father Rafael fought WITH Fidel Castro after being imprisoned by Batista. He 'voted' in favor of Castro before 'voting' against him. Rafael Cruz is now a pastor in north (read: white, affluent) Dallas, just gave a fiery anti-Obama speech to the Family Leadership Summit (a GOP 'family values' group) in Iowa, where he called on other pastors to also get politically involved, and where, just coincidentally, son Ted is also campaigning. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/12/sen-ted-cruzs-dad-makes-fiery-anti-obama-speech/
DeleteYep. Wonder how $carah feels about a likely presidential candidate not just palling around with an arms carrying Communist, but "sitting down to dinner nightly with" and being raised by one.
DeleteC'mon, $carahbitch, do tell us.
I;d assume that these politically active churches will lose their tax-exemption? There's a strong case to be made for it.
DeleteHe's a Harvard educated lawyer, and he "didn't know?"
DeleteI. Call. BULLSHIT.
He must be helping out in the Texas re-writes of American history.
DeleteLet the troublemakers chew on that while the president gets some work done, and takes time to play with the dogs.
ReplyDeleteTed Cruz just told another whopper. Not just a lie: he never does that. When he tells a fib, it is always a gargantuan one. One so big that no one would dare to question it. After all, would a top-of-the-class Harvard Law School graduate whose daddy is a north-Dallas pastor, and who looks you squarely in the eyes like a big puppy dog, lie? Well, in the case of Ted Cruz, the answer is, always, yes. That's what he does best and with great ease even though, probably without exception, he is smart enough and informed enough to know that he is lying at the time (which is why he's sure to be the GOP 2016 candidate).
ReplyDeleteHere's what he told Mary Matalin, sitting in for Laura Ingraham, on the air just yesterday: “I think it is disgraceful that President Obama, in just a lawless move, just exempted Congress [from Obamacare].” IOW, Cruz is claiming not only that Obamacare does not cover Congress, but that Obama – illegally (as though, as President, he had any Constitutional power to do such a thing) – exempted Congress from it.
The lie Cruz told to Matalin yesterday is a BALDFACED lie. Starting January 1, every person in Congress, and all their aides, will have to get their health care from one of the Obamacare healthcare exchanges. Senator Charles Grassley snuck this provision into the law because he presumed that, with this poison pill, Congress would not pass the law. The democrats called his bluff, and passed it anyway (probably assuming that, if Congress lost its current fairy godmother healthcare coverage and had to go under Obamacare, they would rally behind it).
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/20/the_right_gets_confused_by_its_own_lie/
And, they are still pushing that President Obama doesn't have a birth right to be our President!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat friggin' jerks. This is going to be fun to watch.
President Obama must be laughing his head off!
Love, love, love how he blames it on the Dallas Morning News and "the raft of stories about my birth," and "assuming it is true that I could be a Canadian citizen."
ReplyDeleteBlaming the media for reporting FACTS, incontrovertible facts, but making it sound as though the media's either made up this story, (which may or may not be "true," according to Cruz) or is being mean and nasty by reporting it, puts all the onus on the one arm of our society which is supposed to report facts, without bias.
And the bit about how his father fought with Castro but didn't know that Castro was a Communist -- LOL. A little research will show that either the elder Cruz was a moron, or he, legitimately, hated the Batista regime so much that he'd align himself with the only legitimate opposition -- Fidel Castro, who'd been palling around with Che Guevara in Mexico.
Ted is toast.
That Certificate of Birth (Cruz) looks fake.
DeleteYes, Rafael Cruz was intelligent enough to get a high-paying job with the oil industry in Canada, to pursue higher education, and to produce a son who was Summa Cum Laude from Harvard Law School, but too naive to know who Castro was.
DeleteThe birth certificate looks the same as mine from Calgary. Sorry, but it's real. Personally I am PROUD of my dual citizenship. But to say an educated man didn't know where he was born is hilarious. Rafael is NOT a natural born citizen and ineligible for the office of the US presidency.
DeleteSigned Little Rabbit
BTW I technically have 3 citizenships since I have my tribal membership also.
Anyone can have dual or even three citizenships, 8:54 -- and be proud of them!
DeleteBut I wager you're not hoping to be the President of the United States, to be Commander in Chief of all our Armed Forces, and make treaties with foreign powers?
If so, we'd expect you to pick one (1) citizenship and stick with that one. Ted Cruz, even as a U.S. Senator making laws for U.S. citizens, has not seen fit to become a full-fledged U.S. citizen.
That's the problem!
Anon I totally agree with you, but the ONLY office in the USA that requires you to be a natural born citizen is that of the presidency. But everytime I have enrolled in a school, applied for a job and applied for my passport I have had to show my BC and guess what, it listed where I was born. For him to say he didn't know he was a citizen of Canada is ridiculous. Though I am wondering, since I am a Native American, if I could run for the presidency, the government has it on record for centuries of my families land they stole.
DeleteHas Bathhouse Barry ever renounced his Kenyan citizenship.
ReplyDeleteNo because he would then be stateless
Sarah? Is that you, honey? Sounds like you or your anti-gay right wing radio buddy.
Delete7:01 When was Tri-g's 'RILL' Birthbate and who is his Mother and Father? You Birthers who support a Pimp's Wife are full of Shit.
DeleteSo . . . Ted Cruz's Canadian birth certificates are just dandy, while President Obama's two Hawaii birth certificates are not?
DeleteIdiots like you should be banned forever from trolling.
DeleteThe United States constitution doesn't consider Obama a Kenyan citizen. Kenya might, but that doesn't require BHO to renounce anything.
Michele Bachmann didn't have to renounce her Swis citizenship either. It was conferred on her by marriage to her husband.
Teabaggers worry about the most insignificant things, and are clueless about the most important things.
Is that you, Whorehouse Todd Palin? Have you renounced your Secessionist AIP membership? Have you ever seen your wife's college degree? Has Sarah Palin ever seen her college degree? Proof please?
DeleteOh wah, wah, wah. That's all you people have?
DeleteHe doesn't have any other citizenship unlike communist Rafael Cruz.
DeleteDeeDeeThree at 7:01am
DeleteYou're leaving a trail of shit-stains all the way from C4P to our parking lot. We smell you before you even get close. Why don't you bother to check your drawers before you leave your trailer each morning?
Trying to be like Sarah with absolutely no personal hygiene, huh? Figures. Vulgar and malodorous, just like your savior, saint Sarah Quitter. And both of you are as dumb as a bag of hammers.
He never had to, you stupid moron. He automatically lost any right to Kenyan citizenship upon reaching adulthood.
DeleteWhy would he be stateless? He was born on American soil to a US citizen.
Come on now, try to say something intelligent.
Oh wait, you can't ever manage more than two illiterate lines.
President Obama is a thousand times your superior in every way.
@ 7:01
DeleteHow many times do we have to tell you, Kenya did not gain independence and become a country until 1963. President Obama was born in 1961.
So Cruz is an American citizen because his Mother was an American citizen but Obama in not an American citizen even though his Mother was an American citizen.
DeletePlease explain your lack of logic and consistency.
OT Hey, Gryphen, check out Bristol's two latest blog posts, posted some 18 hours ago, probably in response to the National Enquirer article. The posts portray Bristol as the loving mother, writing about motherhood.
ReplyDeleteI she trying to convince her readers, or Levi - or herself?
DeleteI was really amused at how Wonkette skewered Cruz over this issue: http://t.co/LJpxjCm59g
ReplyDeleteWouldn't he have tri=citizenship? Cuba, Canada, USA?
ReplyDeletehttp://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2011/10/ted-cruz-background-as-son-of.html/
DeleteTed Cruz says he hasn’t misled about his father’s exodus from Cuba
By Robert T. Garrett
rtgarrett@dallasnews.com
6:00 am on October 25, 2011
CLARIFICATION: On some occasions since 2005, Ted Cruz has publicly mentioned the date of his father’s departure from Cuba and even the fact he fought on the same side as Fidel Castro. However, in the past two months, the newspaper found no instances in which he offered audiences any clues that his father was a pre-Castro exile.
Texas U.S. Senate hopeful Ted Cruz often ends his speeches with a story about how his father fled Cuban oppression.
But what the stumping GOP Senate candidate hadn’t clarified, until asked by The Dallas Morning News this week, was that his father departed for the U.S. in 1957, more than a year before Fidel Castro came to power.
“Y’all know my heart,” Ted Cruz told the Austin Republican Women last month. “My dad fled Cuba. He was imprisoned and tortured as a teenager, and came to Austin penniless, seeking freedom. The reason I’m running is simple. He fled oppression once. And you have my word that I’ll fight every day to protect freedom here, so that none of us have to flee oppression a second time.”
Cruz hasn’t incorrectly described when his father fled from Cuba, as has U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. According to the Washington Post, Rubio said on three occasions since 2006 and on his official Senate website that his parents came to the U.S. after Castro’s forces overthrew Batista in January 1959. They actually arrived here in May 1956, the Post said.
Cruz, though, has remained silent as journalists and political activists incorrectly placed his father among the many Cubans who left the island nation after Castro took power, rather than as someone who fought on the same side as Castro to topple a rightist dictator, though he departed for Texas before the revolution succeeded.
“He was a guerilla, throwing Molotov cocktails and blowing up buildings,” Ted Cruz told the Austin American-Statesman for a profile published in January 2006.
“He’s the combination of the intellectual skill and principle of [Utah GOP Sen.] Mike Lee and the story, the personal story of a Marco Rubio — his dad having escaped Fidel Castro, came into the United States, working as a dishwasher,” Shackelford said.
Last month, a Houston Chronicle political blog described Cruz as “a Cuban American whose family escaped from Castro tyranny.”
In an interview Monday, Cruz professed not to be aware of confusion about when his father, Rafael Cruz, left Cuba.
“If Kelly [Shackelford] said that, I did not notice that statement,” he said. “That’s certainly not something I say because it’s not the case.”
Cruz said he hasn’t misled.
“I have many, many times described the full context of his fighting with [Fidel] Castro — in the broader sense, … not side by side, but on the same side as Castro,” he said.
Shackelford, reached on Monday, said his point was the elder Cruz “came here for freedom” after being a “political prisoner.”
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Delete"He was a guerilla, throwing Molotov cocktails and blowing up buildings,” Ted Cruz told the Austin American-Statesman for a profile published in January 2006.
“He’s the combination of the intellectual skill and principle of [Utah GOP Sen.] Mike Lee and the story, the personal story of a Marco Rubio — his dad having escaped Fidel Castro, came into the United States, working as a dishwasher,” Shackelford said.
Last month, a Houston Chronicle political blog described Cruz as “a Cuban American whose family escaped from Castro tyranny.”
In an interview Monday, Cruz professed not to be aware of confusion about when his father, Rafael Cruz, left Cuba.
“If Kelly [Shackelford] said that, I did not notice that statement,” he said. “That’s certainly not something I say because it’s not the case.”
Cruz said he hasn’t misled.
“I have many, many times described the full context of his fighting with [Fidel] Castro — in the broader sense, … not side by side, but on the same side as Castro,” he said.
Shackelford, reached on Monday, said his point was the elder Cruz “came here for freedom” after being a “political prisoner.”
“As to whether it was [Fulgencio] Batista or Castro [in power,] I’m like, it doesn’t really matter,” Shackelford said. “There was one dictator replaced by a future dictator.”
Cruz, a former state solicitor general enjoying tea party and social conservative support, is one of four major Republican candidates in the March primary to succeed retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
He said his father began fighting against Batista’s regime when he was 14, in 1953. When the elder Cruz was 17, he was imprisoned and tortured by Batista’s government, his son said. The next year, 1957, Rafael Cruz legally went to Texas on a student visa issued by the Batista regime, Ted Cruz said.
Ted Cruz, who opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants, said at no time was his father an illegal immigrant. He said his father, who graduated from the University of Texas in 1961, eventually became a permanent legal resident. The elder Cruz is now a U.S. citizen, living in Carrollton, his son said.
Ted Cruz said his father described himself as among young teenage boys who fought Batista and allied with Castro’s forces because “they didn’t know Castro was a Communist, what they knew was that Batista was a cruel and oppressive dictator.”
Cruz said his father became a staunch critic of Castro, along with several family members who remained in Cuba, when the rebel leader took control and began seizing private property and suppressing dissent. Rafael Cruz’ younger sister and their parents eventually made it to the U.S. during the 1960s, Ted Cruz said.
Oh My! Ted Cruz didn't need to make any friends to pal around with terrorists. He was one of those anti-American communists that learned at home from his father, who fought alongside Fidel Castro, helping him and Che Guevera to topple the government in Cuba (kooba) and bring Castro's bloody regime to power.
DeleteSo Ted learned at the feet of an admitted terrorist?
DeleteSounds like Ted Cruz's father did the same thing many undocumented workers from other countries have done here in the US: overstay a student visa after graduating. How did Rafael then get a work permit in Canada without being a US citizen? His story, as told by his son, Ted, has lots if holes in it. But Ted is clear about the fact that his father was a violent terrorist who helped Castro and the communists overthrow Batista's government (which had diplomatic relations with the US) and help the murderous Castro regime take control of Cuba.
DeleteJust looking at Ted Cruz gives me the creeps. He is as likely to be the GOP candidate for president in 2016 as Michele Bachmann was in 2012. No one outside of their own state (or congressional district in Bachmann's case) would consider them seriously.
ReplyDeleteI can't stand looking at him because he looks so much like my ex--the sociopathic child rapist who also claims to be a man of God.
DeleteTry Googling Ted Cruz and paisley bathrobe just for fun. Major creep.
This Cruz guy must be an idiot if he didn't know he had dual citizenship! He seems to be one hell of a liar and the American citizens had better watch him closely! He's a nasty, nasty boy that has a very checkered past due to his father's past in Cuba! He does not represent the USA well at all!
ReplyDeleteAnd, HE slams President Obama constantly over nothing that is truthful. What an asshole!
and apparently, he has no balls
Deleteperfect republican
Ted Cruz is a liar and a coward, and he espouses antiAmerican policies. Why else would Sarah Palin, pinup poster cadaver of Alaska's secessionist party, AIP, be endorsing Cruz? Birds of a feather... they're both domestic terrorists.
DeleteOT, but worth knowing about.
ReplyDeleteLeft Action on Facebook has a petitioin going to plead with Alaskans not to send Sarah Palin to the U.S. Senate. This petition is for any citizen, Alaskan or not. Please consider signing it.
You can personalize your comments as you sign the petition.
I ended my comments with: "Can you really trust Sarah Palin to Alaska First? She hasn't, she doesn't, and she won't."
She isn't running in Alaska for anything. She has zero chance of getting past a primary! The majority of Alaskans are delighted she spends so much time in AZ - they can have her!
DeleteSarah knows she's toast. We WISH she would run for ANYTHING, just to hand her flat, flappy-skinned cottage cheese ass back to her on a cake plate; then at least she'd be able to properly serve the next octogenarian she grifts from a cake, instead of leaving it in the aluminum pan to serve out of, as only a lazy country fuck like Sarah would do.
DeleteBottom line: Sarah is a coward who's scared shitless to run for anything. Please note that I don't mean to imply that she neither smells like shit nor *is* full of shit, because she certainly does and is...
The only place we want to send her is Arizona. She couldn't get elected dog catcher here. We wouldn't do that to the poor dogs.
DeleteSo Sarah Palin has been paling around with a FOREIGN citizen? Ted Cruz's Birth Certificate is Canadian and he is a Canadian citizen. How's the Birther Thingy treat in' ya?
ReplyDeleteHow's that Birther Thingy workin' out for ya', Sarah? Fixed it for you, 8:21.
DeleteGood comment.
"Well fuck me."
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't EVEN get that close. Gross.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/20/bill-kristol-reverses-course-sarah-palin-doesnt-have-a-future-in-u-s-politics/
ReplyDeleteAfter a couple of sleepless nights, Bill Kristol comes clean:
Delete(Paraphrased but still within context)
"Yeah, I was kinda talking out my ass about Sarah running for the Senate for Alaska. It's fun to pretend sometimes and think about what a kick it would be to see the former Half-term, Half-ass governor saying stupid shit every day on cable news. But truthfully, it ain't gonna happen. Sarah screwed the pooch when she quit her job halfway through her term like an idiot."
WHERE'S TRI-GG??
ReplyDeleteI DEMAND TO SEE HIS BC NOW
Seems to me that Rafael Cruz could be a sleeper agent from Communist Cuba.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I read, he has told Teddy from a very young age that he is "The Anointed One," chosen to save America...sound familiar? The right is going to have a very hard time selling thise creep to the masses when Daddy uses the same language the right has used with derision in describing President Obama. HI predict lots of time and money wasted promoting this sneaky lying idiot. Go for it, Reince!
DeleteTed Cruz has been a douche for a very long time:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/19/ted-cruz-at-princeton-creepy-sometimes-well-liked-and-exactly-the-same.html
Ted Cruz’s Candidacy Would Be Awkward for Birthers
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/16/ted-cruz-s-candidacy-would-be-awkward-for-birthers.html
Ted Cruz is worried that he isn’t enough of an American to satisfy the tea party wing of the Republican Party. This is why Cruz had to go birther on himself and proclaim that he is the most American American that has ever lived in America, even though he was born in Calgary.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that the half Canadian modern day Joseph McCarthy wants to be president in the worst way. He has his eyes on the Republican nomination, and he is terrified that his party won’t nominate a half breed patriot. This is the real reason why Sen. Cruz is performing the birther equivalent of wrapping himself in the flag while French kissing a George Washington impersonator.
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/08/20/ted-cruz-birther-renouncing-canadian-citizenship.html
Sorry, Teddy, but being born in Canada hardly qualifies you as 'American by birth.' Now, our President, with his Hawaiian birth, IS American by birth, adn I bet that pisses the heck out of you and the birthers, huh? Buh buh Ted.
DeleteThe Obama administration today awarded $67 million in grants to more than 100 organizations who have “who have volunteered to help Americans learn about the health care coverage available in the marketplace.” The announcement is part of a major public-private sector effort to educate Americans, particularly the uninsured, on their options should they seek coverage on the online exchanges under the Affordable Care Act. Open enrollment for individuals eligible for subsidies to buy coverage begins October 1 and runs for six months for broader coverage that begins Jan. 1, 2014.
ReplyDelete*The awards include: $300,000 to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium*
http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2013/08/15/to-help-navigate-obamacare-united-way-catholic-church-others-get-67-million/
ABC Tries to Con America Into Believing that Sarah Palin Will Run for President
ReplyDeleteThe mainstream media refuses to give it up. ABC News is trying to fool people into believing that Sarah Palin will be a presidential candidate. Check out this graphic and see it for yourself.
Before RNC Chairman Reince Priebus was interviewed on This Week, ABC aired a pre-recorded video package with the announcer saying at the end, “There’s no shortage of prospective Republican candidates, and that makes it even more challenging for the party to resolve its ideological divide.”
So let’s take a look at who ABC News thinks is a potential Republican presidential candidate:
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...The lamestream media has got to stop helping Sarah Palin run her con game.
When her SarahPAC starts running low on cash, like clockwork Palin begins rumbling that she might run for some office. Few in the mainstream press seem to notice that Palin spends virtually none of the money that her PAC raises on promoting and donating to candidates. The vast majority of SarahPAC’s expenditures go towards funding Sarah Palin’s lifestyle.
Responsible media outlets need to stop furthering the illusion that Sarah Palin will ever run for anything again. Promoting Palin is just as irresponsible as promoting Donald Trump’s annual Apprentice promotional tour disguised as a presidential campaign. It is necessary to to discuss what Trump and Palin because they speak to the narrow minded bigots in the Republican Party, but the media can do so without feeding into their agenda of greed and personal financial gain.
Sarah Palin is a potential presidential candidate in the same way that the ghost of Ronald Reagan and Curt Schilling bloody sock are presidential candidates. In other words, she isn’t a potential presidential candidate. Alaska doesn’t want her. The nation doesn’t want her, and the media needs to stop bitterly clinging to the idea that washed up has been Sarah Palin has any kind of future in politics.
No matter how much the media keeps pushing the myth of a Palin comeback, it is never going to happen.
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/08/18/abc-news-touts-sarah-palin-2016-presidential-candidate.html
Hey Alaska, the rest of America thinks your food sucks. But they love the scenery. What about all those mooseburgers?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.businessinsider.com/poll-how-americans-feel-about-the-states-2013-8
In case you haven't noticed, most Alaskans don't really care what the rest of America thinks. Don't believe I've had a mooseburger lately, so I can't address that. (Darn, that's what I get for not hanging out with the spectacular Sarah.)
Delete9:40 The Republican Party (Teabaggers included) is putting up names that are going to make them look like they did last go around for POTUS. Their debates were ridiculous and I see the same scenario approaching us AGAIN.
ReplyDeleteRepublican are anti women and racists!
Hillary Clinton will beat the shit out of them...they have no one that measures up to her experience. I hope she runs and doesn't say she is going to for another year They are already trying to crucify her just like they have President Obama since before 2008!
Yea, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton!
Harvard Law School grad Cruz is such a genius, he never noticed that he was born in Canada , before ?
ReplyDeleteOr the implications ?
Some say his Viva Castro ! father also gives him Cuban citizenship .
BTW- I thought that the Tea Party / Limbaugh / Palin cabal
despised all Northeasterners and
especially people who graduated
from colleges in the Northeast ?
There's another oddity on Cruz's birth certificate.
He has always claimed his mother was named Eleanor Darragh
and she had an Italian mother
and an Irish father.
The name of his mother on the Canadian birth certificate
is listed as the very WASPY Eleanor Elizabeth Wilson.
Wilson is not an Irish name nor
is Eleanor Elizabeth an Italian name.
What happened to the Darragh or is that another Cruz fable ?
As Desi would say ,
" Raphael, you got some splainin to do ! "
Cruz just looks shifty and acts weird and it's easy to see
why he gives so many people, especially women,
the Cruz Creeps.
He sets off skin crawling alarm bells on an instinctive level.
When he wandered by the women's dorms at Princeton
( yet, another evil Northeastern school !!! ) in his paisley
bathrobe, I bet it was open.
Now wonder El Pimpo and La Imbecile love him so much.
So Tedmcarthy Cruz thinks it is unimportant and un-newsworthy that someone probably running for the US Presidency has loyalty to another nation?
ReplyDeleteDid Cruz's mother file the proper U.S. forms necessary to document Ted's birth in Canada and right to U.S. citizenship?
ReplyDeletehttp://travel.state.gov/travel/living/living_5497.html
Cruz needs to do more than renounce Canadian citizenship, tell a story about his father's immigration to the U.S. and his mother being born in Delaware. He needs to document the facts.
DeleteTurns out his citizenship depends on whether his mother was a U.S. citizen who lived in the U.S. for "at least ten years at some time in his or her life prior to the birth, at least five of which were after his or her [the mother's] 14th birthday."
http://tinyurl.com/9mzylfj
O/T but related to Texas Politics. From WaPo yesterday:
ReplyDeleteLooks like the Texas TeaTards (R) are pushing for another asshole to keep their run of electing pure idiots as their governor into a third decade (GW "the Brush Clearing War President "Bush 1995-2000; Rick "Oops, it got on your" Goodhair Perry, Dec. 2000-present).
Greg Abbott responds to criticism over Wendy Davis tweet
By Sean Sullivan, Published: AUGUST 19, 9:19 AM ET
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (R), the frontrunner in the race for governor, on Sunday responded to but did not apologize for a tweet thanking a supporter who called state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) an “idiot” and “Retard Barbie.”
On Saturday, Jeff Rutledge, who describes himself in his Twitter profile as a “TEXAS Publisher, debater, & attorney,” tweeted the following:
@GregAbbott_TX would absolutely demolish idiot @WendyDavisTexas in Gov race – run Wendy run! Retard Barbie to learn life lesson. #TGDN @tcot
-- Jeff Rutledge (@jefflegal) August 17, 2013
Abbott responded to the tweet, writing back:
Greg Abbott
@GregAbbott_TX
@jefflegal @tcot -- Jeff, thanks for your support. #TGDN
12:51 PM - 17 Aug 2013
That set of a flurry of criticism, including from the Democratic Governors Association. On Sunday, Abbott sent another tweet saying he does not endorse “offensive language.”
Abbott’s spokesman told the Dallas Morning News that the attorney general writes all of his own Twitter messages.
Davis, who became a national figure after a marathon filibuster of legislation to tighten abortion restrictions, has said she will either run for reelection or for governor in 2014. She told supporters Friday she is “very, very seriously considering” a gubernatorial run.
Wendy Davis 1 Assholes for Abbott 0
Come on Texans, send these misogynistic losers back to their caves!
So the brilliant Senator Ted Cruz didn't know ~ didn't even suspect ~ that because he was born in Canada that he might also too be a citizen of Canada? Glad the Dallas Morning News told him. Reminds me of Palin's "I'll keep doing it until the Court tells me I can't". In Cruz's case, it was "I'll not mention it until I'm forced to then I'll pretend I didn't know".
ReplyDeleteWhat a creep.
Ted Cruz's father didn't become an American citizen until 2005. So, Ted Cruz was born in Canada to a American citizen mother and a Cuban citizen father. So wouldn't Ted be a citizen of Cuba as well as America and Canada?
ReplyDeleteAlso, too, Ted says his father was "...imprisoned by Battista", but also "came to America on a student Visa". Cruz is asking us to believe that Battista released Senor Cruz (senior) from prison and handed him a student visa? I say BS.
I think Cruz shouldn't be so quick to renounce Canadian or Cuban citizenship. Both countries have better healthcare and it's Universal healthcare.
DeleteCanadian Ted Cruz Mangles the Constitution By Getting Obama Impeachment Wrong
ReplyDeleteSenator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is really not as dumb as he acts, which makes the things he says and does even more egregious because he knows better. He pulled a fast one on Republicans last night at a Montgomery County GOP dinner, telling them that they can’t impeach Obama unless they get the Senate under Republican control.
An audience member asked Cruz, “Why don’t we impeach him [Obama]?” reported the National Review based on their audio of the event.
“It’s a good question,” Cruz responded, “and I’ll tell you the simplest answer: To successfully impeach a president you need the votes in the U.S. Senate.”
Cruz then slyly noted that the Democrats control the Senate. Saying they need votes in the Senate to impeach Obama is a super clever way of getting out the vote, even if it is a lie. In order to impeach Obama, Republicans would need the House of Representatives, which they already have.
The House of Representatives has the sole power of impeaching. The Senate has the sole power to convict. To impeach, you need the votes in the House.
Let that sink in as the conservatives twitch.
Why haven’t Republicans done it? Because they know there is no reasonable basis upon which to impeach Obama other than what passes for reason on the right — but being President while black is not going to fly for the rest of the country. We impeach for treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
Republican Presidential candidates tried to garner support by telling their base they would repeal ObamaCare on their first day in office, even though as President they could not just undo the law. Meh. Constitution — not worth the paper it’s written on.
Now they’re going to use impeaching Obama to try to get out the vote for the Senate, even though Cruz later admitted to the National Journal that he would not pursue impeaching Obama even if they had the House and the Senate, because they couldn’t win that fight.
I told you he wasn’t stupid.
If Republicans are dumb enough to fall for yet another big lie that is easily fact checked, they deserve Ted Cruz, even if he doesn’t follow through on his birtheresque promise to revoke his Canadian citizenship. Yes, all parties use anger at the other side to get out the vote and get donations flowing; for example, Democrats have raised quite a tidy sum off of Sarah Palin’s insane screeches.
But Ted Cruz is a sitting U.S. Senator who just lied about impeaching a President who has done nothing to get him impeached.
Luckily for Ted, mangling the Constitution is just sort of what Republicans do these days, so getting it wrong is no biggie. I mean, gosh, he’s only in the Senate, why should he know what they actually do?
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/08/20/cruz-lies-republicans-telling-senate-impeach-obama.html
Don't you have to have an actual reason to impeach a president and be able to prove it?
DeleteTed Cruz is creepy.He is an extremist who lies without any sense of remorse. He thinks he can bully his positions on other members of Congress. He is dangerous . Unlike morons like Gohmert or Bachmann he is highly educated attending both Princeton and Harvard.I know that education doesn't give you common sense .I had a friends in college who were scholastically brilliant and common sense retarded.But Ted Cruz scares me. He doesn't care who or what he hurts as long as he gets his way.
ReplyDeleteObama Family Gets a New Puppy, Daily Caller Says: “The Obamas Do Not Have Any White Dogs”
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable
Of course the right wing is losing their marbles again because the Obama family has a new puppy. That’s absolutely normal for them and totally expected.
But the Daily Caller takes it into flat-out racist territory: The Obamas Got a New Puppy, Everyone!
“A Portuguese Water Dog can range in cost wildly. On average, one will pay between $1,400 and $2,000. President Barack Obama has this breed of animal,” according to an answer on Ask.com.
With the addition of Sunny, the Obamas now have two black Portuguese water dogs.
The Obamas do not have any white dogs."
Remember though — there’s no racism on the right. At all. Ever. Totally made up by the left, who are the true racists.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42420_Obama_Family_Gets_a_New_Puppy_Daily_Caller_Says-_The_Obamas_Do_Not_Have_Any_White_Dogs
Wow!! I don't remember hearing them complain that Bush has two black Scotties while he was in office.
Delete"natural born American citizen" means to me, that the person was born in the United States. I don't see how this can mean to include persons born in another country regardless of the parentage.
ReplyDeleteHis birth certificate and nationality does not matter - add him to the long list of shitheads who will never be President. And just like last time, I don't find this funny. These Teabaggers are dangerous.
ReplyDeleteRevoking Ted Cruz’s Canadian Citizenship May Take 8 Months
ReplyDeleteSen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) may not wish to be a Canadian citizen, but he'll likely carry the honor for some time longer.
The Lone Star State conservative, who announced Monday that he plans to renounce his dual Canadian citizenship, must "win security clearance from Canada's spy agency, fill in a four-page form and then wait up to eight months to sever his ties to America's northern neighbor," Reuters reported Tuesday.
Cruz released his birth certificate Sunday confirming that the tea party favorite was born Dec. 22, 1970 in Calgary, Alberta, but because he was born to an American mother he also instantly became an American citizen.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/revoking-ted-cruzs-canadian-citizenship-may-take-8
I don't know about anyone else, but I want to see his REAL birth certificate. If that one is a real Canadian Birth Certificate, it would have crossed hockey sticks, Canadian Bacon and Maple Syrup stains were the red fake certificate stamp should be.
ReplyDeleteCome on Ted, show your REAL birth certificate!
Ted Cruz is trying to nip Cruz birtherism in the bud by releasing his birth certificate and renouncing his Canadian citizenship — though the de-Canadaization process could take up to eight months. Cruz was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father, so he is an American citizen. But that is not good enough for some birthers. The GOP's winking not-quite-embrace of birther movement and the nativism it represents is not without consequence. At the core of birtherism is the sense that an outsider has infiltrated the nation and clawed his way to illegitimate power in order to serve foreign interests. For a party that is worried about its standing with Latino voters, it's not a good look.
ReplyDeleteCruz is one of the most famous Latino Republicans in public office, and unlike fellow Latino Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, he hasn't infuriated the conservative base by supporting a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Even so, Cruz has to deal with suspicion from conservative voters that he's disqualified to be president because of where his dad was born.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/08/ask-birther-ted-cruz/68531/
Where is Orly Taitz in all this? And the Donald spent money looking into POTUS Obama (who was born in the US to an American Mother). Where is his team of investigators? He's too busy wrapping his mind around all the contradictions in this....
ReplyDeleteWould he have Cuban citizenship through his father also? Where is all the outrage against him????? He is not a natural born citizen. He has citizenship because his mother was a citizen. He was born in Canada. There is a difference. Natural born means they were born on US soil. Since when does anyone with a education not know when born in another country and have a parent a citizen of the Us that the would have dual citizenship? What are anchor babies, that they complain about? We need to know all about any free healthcare the family got while in Canada, since he doesn't want any of us to have healthcare! They are all such hypocrites
ReplyDeleteSo Cruz, born in Canada is an American citizen because he Mother was an American.
ReplyDeleteBut Obama, born in Hawaii to an American Mother is not an American citizen because his Father was Kenyan?
By their twisted logic if Cruz is American then so is Obama because no matter where he was born HIS MOTHER WAS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.
I just wish their heads would explode already.
Here's the problem whenever anyone claims American citizenship through the mother: you have to prove the mother, Eleanor Darragh (maiden name), was married to the father at the time of the child's birth if the birth occurred before 1986. Considering both Rafael Sr and Mrs. Wilson were married with children ("Ted" has 4 half-sisters) when they hooked up, to understand Cruz's citizenship status we need to know when or if his parents divorced their previous spouses and when or if they ever married BEFORE his birth. Now if "Ted" Cruz is as smart as he would like us to believe, he knows that showing us his Canadian birth certificate does not answer the real question: what was his mother's marital status at the time of his birth? All the birth certificate does is confirm that at one time his mother's name was Mrs. Wilson.
ReplyDeleteI know how you liberals hate FACTS, but try to stay with me here. This is going to require you to think AND comprehend.
ReplyDeleteHere is the U.S. FEDERAL LAW for people born between December 23, 1952 and November 13, 1986 (Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. was born in 1961, Ted Cruz Dec 22, 1970):
"When one parent was a U.S. citizen and the other a foreign national, the U.S. citizen parent must have resided in the U.S. for a total of 10 years prior to birth of the child with FIVE of the years after the age of 14.” Stanley Ann Dunham did not meet requisite status as she gave birth in Kenya at age 18, thus the Kenyan born Obama is not legit. Why else would he provide a fake birth certificate? (An independent forensic expert stated the odds of it being real at 1 in 62.5 quintillion (billion times a billion) http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/the-probability-os-birth-certificate-is-genuine/)
Cruz' American citizen mother, Eleanor Elizabeth Darragh Wilson, born in Delaware in 1935, a graduate of Rice University in 1957 who DID NOT GO TO CANADA UNTIL AFTER SHE GRADUATED, meets this requirement. For persons born out of wedlock (IF Cruz was), the person is a U.S. citizen if all the following apply:
the mother was a U.S. citizen at the time of the person's birth and the mother was physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year prior to the person's birth.
NOTICE THAT IT DOES NOT SAY "FOR ONE YEAR IMMEDIATELY PRIOR" TO THE BIRTH. Otherwise, a U.S. born, single mother, who had resided in the U.S. for 22 years, on vacation in a foreign country, who gives birth would not have U.S. citizenship for her child, which is ridiculous.
I know you liberals hate the FACTS, but learn the law next time before you come in here and make a fool of yourself.